Training, Uprising, What is Local, Bread Awards

Social Enterprise Training

So a bit of a delay writing this, but doughies have now completed day 3 and 4 of the social enterprise course. It whistled by at the end of May (and in fact the final day 5 & 6 is fast approaching at the end of June!).

Day 3 covered marketing; Day 4 leadership. Lots of lovely community and bready ideas floating around my head – day 5 and 6 to come the end of this week – full update to follow 🙂

The Uprising, London

Have a look here for a cool event down in London – doughies can’t make it, but thought I’d share with ye bread heads incase you missed it.

but closer to home…

Scotland – The Bread

Andrew Whitley is onto some good stuff which we are hoping doughies can get involved in:-

Have a read here and more importantly, pledge your support here. Doughies are helping germinate this one 🙂

Nourish – Growing the local food economy in Scotland

A good read from Nourish available hereall about local food in Scotland.

Here’s some breadcrumbs we took from the report:-

There’s a whole host of benefits of local food such as:-

Improving public understanding and access to local healthy food

Education for children and adults alike

Community regeneration as we get closer to where our food comes from

Local isn’t just about geography / locality

Local is often defined as a radius of 10-60 miles from the point of purchase

But this is kind of a limiting description that doesn’t cover the meaning behind “local”

Local means more than local

It means social proximity and trust between producer and citizen

Local food is a relationship; not a commodity

I like the idea Nourish have of switching from local to “short food chains” (blog post to follow on doughies short food chain!)

We’re not expecting to win. But if you don’t enter, how do you have a chance? Its will fun baking and sending our sourdough down for the awards (The bread MUST be delivered fully baked and ready to eat by 12 noon on Wednesday 16 September 2015!) ; can’t wait to start fine tuning a big sourdough miche 🙂